Quotes About Listening

It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.

Ne pas écouter est non seulement un manque de politesse, mais encore une marque de mépris. Rien ne rapporte plus dans le commerce du monde que l'aumône de l'attention. À bon entendeur salut !

His leading is only for those who are already committed to do as He may choose. To such it may be said: "God is able to speak loud enough to make a willing soul hear.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

The less people think of you, the more they will reveal to you or in your presence.

You mustn't take any notice of her,' says Enigma. 'I often sing a little song in my head until she's finished talking.

admit it to her dad, who would just take what she said at face value, rather than her mother, who would listen too intently and empathetically and filter everything through her own emotions.

Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen.

student Rani. "Passive listening is the way he listens to me.

You're different from other agency people," one client told her at the end of their first meeting, as he shook her hand to seal the deal. "You actually listen more than you talk.

He liked his friends, but he had no interest in hearing their personal problems and he therefore couldn't share his own. He

Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen. Her

It was somehow easier to just baldly admit it to her dad, who would just take what she said at face value, rather than her mother, who would listen too intently and empathetically and filter everything through her own emotions.

concentration drifted as Alain continued to talk. She watched the closed

She still had no solution, no way out, but for just this moment she was sitting opposite someone who understood.

Her husband was a patient man, but she had noticed a glazed look on his face as she'd talked, admittedly for quite a long time,

She'd learned that with her daughters. Don't say a word. Don't ask a question. Give them enough time and they'll finally tell you what's on their minds. It was like fishing. It took silence and patience. (Or so she'd heard.

She'd learned that with her daughters. Don't say a word. Don't ask a question. Give them enough time and they'll finally tell you what's on their minds. It was like fishing. It took silence and patience. (Or so she'd heard. Cecilia would rather hammer nails into her forehead than go fishing.) Silence didn't come naturally to her. Cecilia was a talker.

When someone refuses to listen to you or others, there is one source or entity that he will listen to: Call it God, the universe, a higher power, karmic law, whatever. At any rate, if he feels that the universe is trying to tell him something, then he may listen. He won't listen to you or anyone else, but the universe, that's a different story.

Too often, the anthropologist takes on the role of police detective, discovering what is "hidden," assembling "evidence" to make a strong "case"... But sometimes what is called for is not an "investigator" at all, but an attentive listener.

So keep your mouth closed and let your eyes listen.

I sensed him leaning forward. It's weird to feel someone's attention on you that way, like you're the only thing in the world they're listening to. Most of the time people are distracted, or just thinking about what they're going to say next.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

She stared at me and nodded into the silence between us, as if I were still talking and making perfect sense.